Chapter 26 — Part III — The Ten Commandments
Section 560. Q. Who stand to us in the place of parents? A. 1. Our sovereign and our country; for an empire is a great family, in which the sovereign is father, and the subjects children of the sovereign and their country. 2. Our spiritual pastors and teachers; for they by their doctrine and by the Sacraments beget us to spiritual life, and nurture us up in it. 3. Our elders in age. 4. Our benefactors. 5. Our governors, or superiors, in different relations.